Michael Maxey, senior analyst at Progressive Strategies, offers a checklist of questions to ask your company and vendors before investing in storage virtualization.

Storage virtualization is an effort to abstract the function of data storage from the procedures and physical process by which the data is actually stored. A user no longer needs to know how ...

The initial approach to storage virtualization, which has been around for years, was to address it in the storage-area network because the SAN sat between the storage and servers, and would cause ...

Of the top three SMB storage virtualization vendors, IBM looks to be on track to gain the most share of the storage virtualization market compared to its top competitors, Hewlett-Packard and EMC.

When it comes to storage virtualization, everyone from the top vendors to enterprise users talks about it, but nobody does much about it. That is, until now. The major storage companies are ...

IBM Tuesday said networking giant Cisco Systems has become the 1,000th customer to buy IBM's storage virtualization software. The deal, which was announced at a conference on Tuesday in Boston, is ...

VMware may be expanding into thin provisioning and virtualized storage, but DataCore Software has been at this now for 10 years ...

EMC Corp. has acquired a Bedford-based storage virtualization firm, which will join EMC’s Backup Recovery Systems division, the company announced Wednesday.